The Michigan Daily- Friday, March 26, 1993- Page 13
HOCKEY
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unstoppable.
In fact, the only playoff series the
team lost from 1984 to 1988 was the
Smythe Division final against the
Calgary Flames when Oiler
defenseman Steve Smith put the
puck into his own net off the leg of
Oiler goalie Fuhr. The Oilers won
five Cups during their reign and
ushered in a new era of offensive
hockey.
FA- Montreal Forum. The
Forum is a hockey shrine unlike any
other. Young pucksters dream of
playing at the arena on St. Catherine
almost from the time they lace up
their first pair of blades. A game at
The Forum is the event in Montreal.
G - Wayne Gretzky. The Great
One is the most dominant and
exciting athlete to ever play
professional sports. His 92-goal
season and four years of more than
200 points far surpass any other
offensive records set in any other
sport.
He is a high-class individual off
the ice and a great ambassador for
the sport. One will never see
Gretzky sneak out the back door of
the rink after a bad game.
However, he did make reporters
wait after setting the record for the
0 fastest 50 goals, scoring No 50 in
game No. 39 - he had to telephone
his father.
H - Gordie Howe. Mr. Hockey
played 26 seasons in the NHL -25
In Detroit. He played his final season
at age 50. Howe is quite simply, one
of the greatest and toughest athletes
to play any game - anytime,
anywhere.
Mr. Hockey won the Hart and Art
Ross Trophies six times, played the
most regular season games in NHL
history (1,767) and still holds the
record for most All-Star team
selections (21). A dignified man as
well as a hard-nosed player, Howe
also holds the record for most career
All-Star game penalty minutes (25).
I - International. The Toronto
Blue Jays became the first Canadian
team to win the championship of
America's game just last season.
However, the Seattle Metropolitans
became champions of Canada's
game in 1917.
The NFL and NBA are the pre-
eminent leagues for their respective
sports and include no foreign teams
and relatively few international
players.
J - Jerseys. Hockey uniforms
are the most colorful and
aesthetically pleasing in all of sport.
Football unies have only numbers.
Baseball's are too much like
everyday wear, complete with dress
shirt and belt buckle. Basketball
uniforms are nothing but glorified
Underoos.
K - Penalty Killing. No other
major sport ever has a playing
situation wherein one team has more
players in the game than the other.
The -occurrence of penalties, power
great athletic moments of innocence.
When Al Michaels asked if we
believed in miracles, the refrain was
a resounding, "YES!"
N - No NHL franchise in
Cleveland -'nuff said.
O - Octopus. The Red Wing
ritual of tossing the aquatic one onto
the ice stems from the eight games it
used to take to win the Stanley Cup.
In the olden days, four of the six
teams made the playoffs for best-of-
seven series.
Q - Quickness. To be a good
athlete, one must have quick
reflexes. To be a good hockey
player, one must have extremely
quick reflexes. Hockey is the fastest
game in the world and commands
quick players.
R - Maurice Richard. A
Montreal Canadien from 1943 to
1960, "The Rocket" was the biggest
NHL star in the 1940s and '50s. He
was the first player to score 50 goals
- he did it in the 50-game, 1944-45
season. He played with a reckless
abandon that led William Faulkner
to characterize his play as having the
"passionate, glittering, fatal, alien
quality of snakes."
In the seventh game of the 1952
Stanley Cup semifinals against
Boston, Richard was checked
headfirst into defenseman Bill
Quackenbush's knee and was carried
from the ice. In the Forum training
room, The Rocket demanded to be
returned to action in the third period,
not fully conscious.
He peered semi-consciously at
the clock and when informed there
were four minutes to go in a 1-1
game, Richard told coach Dick Irvin
he was ready. The Rocket took a
pass from Canadien defenseman
Butch Bouchard near his own net,
skated through the entire Bruin team
and buried the puck behind
goaltender Sugar Jim Henry.
After the game, he broke into
sobs and convulsions and had to be
calmed by sedatives. To this day,
The Rocket remembers nothing of
the victory.
S - The Stanley Cup. Lord
Stanley's chalice is the oldest trophy
competed for by team sports in
North America. Every young hockey
player grows up with the dream of
drinking champagne from this most
glorious of trophies. Although they
go hand-in-hand, winning the NHL
championship is far secondary to
holding aloft the Stanley Cup.
T - Toughness. The game of
hockey houses the toughest
collection of athletes in the world.
No other sport has the speed and
power of hockey combined with
immovable boards and glass
encircling the combatants. You'll
never see a baseball player get hit in
the head with a 90 mile-an-hour
slapshot (never mind get a hangnail)
and not miss a play.
U - Unbeaten. From Oct. 14,
1979 to Jan. 6, 1980, the
Philadelphia Flyers did not lose a
game. This 35-game jaunt is the
longest undefeated streak for
professional team sports in North
America.
V - The Voice of hockey,
Foster Hewitt. "He shoots. He
scores." Hewitt coined this phrase
which has since become a mainstay
of any announcer's vocabulary.
He also created the picture of
hockey for many fans stationed in
front of their radios trying to
comprehend how Eddie Shore just
clobbered an opposing player or how
Jean Beliveau went uppers on Terry
Sawchuk.
W - Women. The NHL is the
only major American professional
sports. league to have a woman
compete in a game. Goaltender
Manon Rheaume became the first
woman to do so in the 1992
preseason for the Tampa Bay
Lightning.
X - X-Rays. Homage should be
paid to this invention. It has been
used on countless players through
the years and is an essential in any
hockey lockeroom.
Y - Youth. Children have so
much fun playing and watching the
game. Unlike other sports, kids can
play a full, flowing game at a young
age without the knowledge ot
strategies and play-calling.
Z - Frank Zamboni. This man,
possibly more important to Canada
than Henry Ford was to the U.S.,
invented the ice resurfacing machine
we all have grown to know and love.
Gordie Howe skates up ice during one of his 26 NHL campaigns. Howe is
also one of the 26 reasons hockey is the best sport in the world.
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plays and shorthanded situations in
hockey make for high tension play
and specialized personnel units.
L - Mario Lemieux. The
Penguins star is the pre-eminent
player in the game today. He scores
like few have before him. Sadly,
hockey's brightest star has been
afflicted by back ailments
throughout his career and Hodgkin's
disease this year.
The greatest thing about
Lemieux, though, is that although
the spotlight is fixed on him, he
conducts himself with poise. He
gives of himself and his fortune to
aid disadvantaged children and
brushes off praise to his supporting
cast in Pittsburgh. Long may
Lemieux reign.
M - Miracle on Ice. The 1980
U.S. Olympic hockey team's upset
victory over the Soviets in Lake
Placid is arguably the greatest
moment in American sports history.
The fact that 20 upstart college
kids from the ponds of New England
and Minnesota could bring the best
team in the world to its knees gave
hope to every American in the
malaise-filled days of inflation,
Afghanistan and the Iran hostages.
This was one of America's last
P - Penalty Shot. The penalty
shot is the most exciting play in
sports. It is one-on-one, mano a
mano, shooter and goalie. The build-
up, immediate opportunity and rarity
of its being called make the play one
to watch.
Welcome
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Dental
Career
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The University of Michigan
School of Dentistry
SATURDAY April 3,1993
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$1.50 Molson/Molson Light
-Sunday Special-
8:30 -9:15 Registration - Refreshments in Kellogg Auditorium
9:15 - 9:30 OPENING SESSION - Kellogg Auditorium
Dr. Jed J. Jacobson, Director of Admissions, School of Dentistry
"Dentistry Today and Tomorrow"
9:30 - 10:30 PRESENTATIONS ON DENTAL CAREERS
" Dr. Regina Dailey, general practice
" Dr. Kevin Sloan, prosthodontist
* Dr. Helen Zylman, oral-maxillofacial surgeon
" Dr. James Wright, general practice
10:30 - 10:40 FINANCIAL AID AND STUDENT SERVICES
Dr. Marilyn Woolfolk, Director of Student Affairs
10:40 -11:30 TOURS of The School of Dentistry conducted by dental
students: Lecture Halls, Clinics, Library, Preclinical
Laboratories, Television Center, Computer Facility, and
Self-instruction Center.
11:30 -1:15 "HANDS-ON" experience in the Preclinical Laboratories
LUNCH - food and refreshments will be provided by dental
student organizations at a nominal fee
1:15 - 2:30 PREPARATION for admission to the DDS program (Dentistry) -
Discussion, questions & answers.
Dr. Jed J. Jacobson in the Kellogg Auditorium.
There are ample parking facilities in the Dental School Parking
Structure. Entrance to this structure is on Fletcher Street,
immediately north of the University Health Service. The
Fletcher Street entrance (between Health Service and the
Kellogg Building) should be used to enter the School.
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